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F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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F-Droid: Android FOSS app store

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Privacy @lemmy.ml

I has come to my attention that some users have never heard of F-droid. F-droid is a free software app store for android

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There was once a time where I thought living with apps from only F-Droid was impossible.
Now, F-Droid is my only app store, and I only use Aurora Store for banking apps (and even then, I prefer to do banking on desktop).
- I recently switched to a phone with only microG installed, absolutely 0 Google services.
  It works insanely well nowadays.
  
  Is that possible on stock rom? What are you running?
- This is exactly what I am doing.
  \ I am very grateful to the foss community that this is possible.
- Just started doing exactly this recently. Aurora fills the gaps for the stuff that I need without the play store.
- I got late to the party, I still use the Google Play Store, but I find some neat apps with Fdroid from time to time, and I was like "hey this isn't that bad" I feel weird to have spend so much time looking for individual APK files ngl.

Obligatory droid-ify plug (Material UI client)
https://github.com/Droid-ify/client
- Another similar one: https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Store
- Yes! It's much nicer than fdroid.
  
  Not only nicer looking, but comes preinstalled with multiple repos
  Installed it, and uninstalled regulär fdroid itself
- Fdroid basic is more stable

Yeah I always look for apps on fdroid first if I need something. It doesn't have everything but a lot of the time there are great FOSS apps available.
I also love that you can filter apps for different criteria such as privacy, close source dependencies etc.
It's a great project. Reminds me I should tip them some for their great work.
- I always look for apps on fdroid first if I need something
  Me too, and if it's not there then I recently discovered Aurora Store which let's you download from Google Play anonymously and is itself available on F-Droid.
  Reminds me I should tip them
  Nice try, Philip J. Fry!
  
  How's the Aurora Store working right now? Last time I used it, anonymous accounts started getting rate-limited pretty severly, rendering it quite painful to use
  
  Made me exhale audibly through my nostrils.

Also add IzzyOnDroid for newer packages
- Aaaand use Droid-ify for easier automatic updates with a prettier interface!
- Do you know the proper url please? I've just searched, and there are a few different results.
  
  https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/

My favorite F-droid app: !boinc@sopuli.xyz
Open Source
Uses your phone's spare computational power to help scientists working on everything from cancer research to finding pulsars and black holes. You choose which projects to contribute to. Phones are more compute-per-watt efficient than most computers, and every little bit helps!
Can't be published in Google Play store due to their ToS (it downloads and executes code from outside of its own APK which is not allowed)
Make sure to limit CPU usage to keep temps down. If your phone can't get rid of heat easily, this app is not for you.
- Seems like awful use of your phone battery. Things like this are much better suited to desktop computers than anything that runs off battery. Even if they are more efficient as you say, they wear out much faster, leading to e-waste.
  
  By default it only runs when battery is full and plugged into a charger. If you are keeping temps low there is no battery damage. I have ran this for years on several different phones.
- How do I know a Boinc project doesn't have malware?
  
  BOINC has been around for decades and no project containing malware has ever happened. Ultimately you have to trust the BOINC project you are running code from. Most of them are run out of major universities or research institutes.
  BOINC also features code-signing to prevent mitm attacks or somebody breaking into a project server and distributing malware that way. Projects are encouraged to keep the signing keys on an offline machine or at least a different machine, which probably generally is what happens. Most developers do their coding work on one machine and then publish that to a server. Using your server for development would be inconvenient and questionable practice.
  With Android specifically, I don't know the extent to which malware could even do anything as there's built-in sandboxing.
  BOINC does also have a sandboxed mode available on Windows, but it will prevent BOINC from using your GPU if you want it to do that. On Linux, BOINC typically runs as an unprivileged user.
- can't trust it (blindly) for some reason... but there are other reasons I will not get into here

If you are not already using it, https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium, it's updated and improved frequently
'Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.'
Currently supported App sources:
Open Source - General: GitHub GitLab Codeberg F-Droid Third Party F-Droid Repos IzzyOnDroid SourceForge SourceHut Other - General: APKPure Aptoide Uptodown APKMirror (Track-Only) Huawei AppGallery Jenkins Jobs Open Source - App-Specific: Mullvad Signal VLC Other - App-Specific: Telegram App Steam Mobile Apps Neutron Code "HTML" (Fallback): Any other URL that returns an HTML page with links to APK files

Great app! I've been using it for years and it just gets better and better over time

What Post is that??
Onion is down

I posted this not to long ago

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